Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats - 9781403970589
Un libro in lingua di Anthony Bradley edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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"This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of Yeats's poems, volume by volume, in the context of Ireland's period of decolonization, from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s. The connections between Yeats's writing and politics are explored in the light of contemporary theories of nationalism and modernism. Yeats imagined revolutionary Ireland in both Romantic and Modernist modes, as a nation struggling to come into being, and as the center of apocalyptic fragmentation. His mastery andextension of the traditional forms of verse, from ballad and sonnet to modernist sequence or constellation, gives aesthetic shape to the preoccupations of nation and cultural crisis. This well-written analysis of Yeats's poetry and drama also introduces readers to the major scholarship on Yeats"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats
- Sottotitolo: Nation, Class, and State
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Anthony Bradley
- Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
- Collana: Palgrave Macmillan (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Maggio '11
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- Argomenti : Politics and literature Ireland History 20th century Politics and literature Ireland History 19th century Nationalism and literature Ireland History
- Pagine: 256
- ISBN-10: 1403970580
- EAN-13: 9781403970589